Schnulzenerlass

The tearjerker decree was adopted in the July 1968 statement of the ORF - General Director Gerd Bacher of the radio broadcasters of only began in October 1967 radio station Ö3 , instead of the German " schmaltzy " playing international pop music. According to a report in the daily Express , the authoritarian general director asked his radio staff to take account of the musical zeitgeist:

“In the last few months an inexplicable bugger invasion has started to break into Ö3. Whenever you turn up all-round programs in Ö3, a Germanic idiot whispers in your ears. Since I have been addressing my request to the various Ö3 men and women for months - unfortunately in vain - after my return I would no longer ask, but rather draw the appropriate conclusions. "

Gerd Bacher's word of power, in which he instructed to play more “international entertainment and pop music” , had serious consequences. The program of the youth broadcaster Ö3 drastically reduced the quota of German-language music in favor of music of Anglo-Saxon origin. The German-language hits that Bacher reviled in the Schnulzenerlass have since been broadcast increasingly in the (federal state) programs of Austria Regional (Ö2) - the direction of the director cemented the programmatic orientation of both channels. The then Ö3 presenter André Heller described Bacher in 2008 as a “gifted encourager” who, through the Schnulzenerlass, “de- Roy- Blackization of youth culture in favor of Frank Zappa, the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and general ventilation as Ally ” .

Haymo Pockberger should soon comment on new German hits with his own rhymes every Sunday afternoon with his satirical Ö3 program Das Schnulzodrom . This made him known in Germany at the beginning of the 1970s.

literature

• Christian Glanz: Schlager. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 ., P. 2075.

Web links

• Jon Griebler: The BEAT-CLUB (1965–1972) as a medium for intercultural pop aesthetics . Thesis. University of Graz 2006 (PDF, 428 kB)
• Ö3 and the "Schnulzenerlass"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Der Niedergang des Patriarchats - Schnulzenerlass ( Memento of the original of August 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
2. ^ Express , July 25, 1968; quoted from Paulus Ebner and Karl Vocelka : The tame revolution. '68 and what remained of it. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-8000-3679-7 , page 93.
3. ^ Wolfgang Rumpf: Wolfgang Rumpf: Music in the Air: AFN, BFBS, Ö3, Radio Luxemburg and RadioKultur in Germany. LIT, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-825-80329-2 ; P. 132 (books.google.de).
4. ^ Hitradio Ö3 - History ( Memento from May 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ "The children of the broadcasting reform ": Die Furche 39/07, September 27, 2007, page 23. However, Radio Wien currently has less than half of the Ö3 share of 11.6 with a rate of 4.2% of local performers % up (source: Wiener Bezirkszeitung NR. 49/2009)
6. ↑ Angelika Hager, Sebastian Hofer: Our 68er - The cozy revolution against anti-Semitism and misogyny. Profile, March 1, 2008
7. ^ ORF Upper Austria: Radio legend Haymo Pockberger died